Kaniakapupu LbNA #39058 (ARCHIVED)

The cache is placed outside the ruins of the former summer palace of King Kamehameha III and his Queen Kalama just off the Nu'uanu Pali Drive. The palace was completed in 1845 and was used for the entertaining of foreign celebrities, chiefs, and commoners. In 1847, an estimated ten thousand people gathered at the palace for a luau to celebrate the return of Hawaiian independence following five months of British occupation. The palace was abandoned after the king's death in 1854. The surrounding area is said to contain a burial mound from the Battle of Nu'uanu, which King Kamehameha I won to unite the Hawaiian Islands.

Follow These Directions to the Cache:

• Make your way NE (Kailua bound) along Nu'uanu Pali Drive, the trailhead is just past the last house on the right.


• Parking can be a bit hard to locate nearby, so a short stroll to the trailhead may be in order.


• Once at the trailhead start down the obvious trail.


• At approximately 300 feet in you will come to a fork in the trail, go left here.


• Travel along this trail for another 350 feet, soon you should be able to see the ruins.


• Stop just shy of the break in the stone wall and turn right.


• Walk alongside the wall until it makes a 45 degree turn toward the ruins.


• Stop, the fallen tree about ten feet in front of you conceals the box/cache (medium sized cammo taped lock-n-lock).

After finding the box take some time and carefully walk around. Try to imagine what this place was like during its heyday. To me the area just exudes MANA.

I can't stress this enough. Please treat this site as SACRED, don't move or remove any of the rocks from the walls or ruins. Mahalo!